MONOPOLIES: Next?

In the view of Attorney General Francis
Biddle and the Antitrust Division of his Department of Justice, the
fact that General Electric Co., like other U.S. industries, was
hip-deep in the problems of war production had nothing much to do with
the case. Last week, the busy Biddle-men added a Government suit to
G.E.'s frazzling production worries.

The charge: that G.E. and its subsidiary, International General Electric
Co., Inc., have conspired for many years to restrain trade through
cartel agreements with six foreign firms. Allegedly violated were the
Sherman Antitrust Act and...